Amanda Knox

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News about Amanda Knox, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 28, 2015

Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation overturns murder convictions of former American exchange student Amanda Knox and Italian man Raffaele Sollecito; defendants are granted full acquittal in 2007 stabbing death of British student Meredith Kercher; full exoneration in such a complicated case is uncommon in the Italian justice system, and many react with initial disbelief. MORE

Mar. 26, 2015

Italy's highest court postpones by two days ruling on whether to uphold convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. MORE

Mar. 25, 2015

Italy's highest court will issue final ruling on case of American college student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who were accused of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher; ruling could start extradition process for Knox, who returned to Washington State in 2011 upon her acquittal. MORE

Jul. 2, 2014

Raffaele Sollecito, co-defendant with his former girlfriend Amanda Knox in 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, announces new appeal strategy that separates his defense from Knox's; says statement by Knox exonerates him and provides an alibi. MORE

Apr. 30, 2014

Italian court that found Amanda Knox guily of murder in January 2014 explains that they believe she killed her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 because of an argument, rather than during a sex game, as previously argued, and that she wielded the knife. MORE

Feb. 4, 2014

Italy's justice minister announces an investigation into comment made by Judge Alessandro Nencini, who read the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito; Nencini had made statement to the press regarding the difficulty of reaching a verdict in the case. MORE

Feb. 2, 2014

Serge Schmemann Quick History column reviews major news event of the week, including the Italian murder trial of Amanda Knox, Pres Obama's State of the Union message, and the unrest in Ukraine. MORE

Feb. 1, 2014

Amanda Knox, in interview with ABC's Good Morning America, says she will not return to Italy willingly; Italian appeals court upheld her 2009 conviction for the murder two years earlier of Meredith Kercher, her roommate in a student apartment in Perugia; legal experts say latest decision is likely to set off years more of court battles in Italy and possibly the United States. MORE

Jan. 31, 2014

Amanda Knox and former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are convicted for second time in 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy; ruling upholds 2009 conviction; Knox is sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison and Sollecito to 25 years; both defendants continue to uphold their innocence. MORE

Jan. 30, 2014

Court in Florence, Italy, is poised to determine fate of Amanda Knox, American student accused of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 in Perugia; Knox will await the verdict in her hometown of Seattle after deciding not to be present at the proceedings; appeals court reversed her murder conviction in October 2011, but Italy’s highest court vacated that ruling and ordered a new trial. MORE

May. 26, 2013

Sam Tanenhaus reviews book Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox. MORE

May. 12, 2013

By the Book interview with author Amanda Knox, whose book Waiting to Be Heard has been published. MORE

May. 5, 2013

Frank Bruni Op-Ed column contends way in which media has treated Amanda Knox story exemplifies appalling tendency in American culture to heap scorn and slurs on women seen as sexually bold. MORE

Apr. 22, 2013

Michiko Kakutani reviews book Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox. MORE

Apr. 19, 2013

Amanda Knox memoir Waiting to Be Heard contains shocking details about her stay in Italian prison over murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher; book, most extensive public testimony since Knox was convicted of murdering Kercher and then acquitted, is scheduled for release on April 30. MORE

Mar. 27, 2013

Italy’s highest court orders new trial in case of Amanda Knox, American student accused of murdering her 21-year-old roommate Meredith Kercher of Britain in 2007; ruling means that case against Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, will be reheard at new appeals court in Florence either later in 2013 or in early 2014. MORE

Mar. 27, 2013

Op-Ed article by mathematician Leila Schneps and her daughter Coralie Colmez points out how much unnecessary drama in case of Amanda Knox has resulted from bad math; holds trial judge's rejection, based of ignorance of probability, of retesting knife forensically found to have small amount of DNA from victim Meredith Kercher missed opportunity to get at truth of her murder. MORE

Feb. 12, 2013

American college student Amanda Knox, who was convicted and later acquitted of murdering her housemate while studying in Perugia, Italy, will give her first on-camera interview, with Diane Sawyer on ABC; session will air same day as release of Knox's book Waiting to Be Heard. MORE

Feb. 15, 2012

Italian prosecutors file an appeal seeking a new trial for Amanda Knox and her onetime boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the fatal 2007 stabbing of British student Meredith Kercher; appeal is filed in response to decision by an appellate court to overturn the 2009 murder convictions of Knox and Sollecito. MORE

Feb. 13, 2012

Publishers vying for the rights to the memoir of American student Amanda Knox, who was exonerated for the murder of roommate Meredith Kercher, and who spent nearly four years in an Italian prison, face risk that the book-buying public may not see her as a sympathetic figure; estimated seven-figure advance for Knox's story is a huge gamble for publishers, as her exoneration is not clear and definitive in the eyes of many. MORE

Dec. 16, 2011

Italian appeals court that overturned the murder conviction of Amanda Knox in the killing of her British roommate gave the reasons for its ruling, saying that the evidence in the case against Knox was inadequate. MORE

Oct. 9, 2011

Longtime reporter and author Nina Burleigh appears to tread the line between journalist and advocate in her emphatic defense of Amanda Knox, an American exchange student who was freed by an Italian court after being convicted and serving four years in prison for killing of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. MORE

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